Regional and Area Studies
Featured Books
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Planning for Water Security in Southeast Asia
Community-Based Infrastructure During the Urban Transition
September, 2022
£40.00 / $40.00
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African Memoirs and Cultural Representations
Narrating Traditions
Toyin Falola
In this book, memoirs by West African writers are discussed as repositories of African communities, ranging from the traditional to the contemporary. Each memoir examined analyzes and sheds light on the inner workings of society via the individual, including the dynamic processes of African cultures, civilizations, and peoples.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839987731
July 2022
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£110.00 / $110.00In this book, memoirs by West African writers are discussed as repositories of African communities, ranging from the traditional to the contemporary. Each memoir examined analyzes and sheds light on the inner workings of society via the individual, including the dynamic processes of African cultures, civilizations, and peoples.
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Is Brazil Afraid of the World?
Discussing Brazilian Foreign Affairs and Challenges
Roberto Teixeira da Costa
Have you ever thought Brazil was a country afraid of becoming more international? Written by a Brazilian expert in foreign affairs, this book describes Brazilian position in the international scenario and presents an authentic and provocative point of view on the Brazilian international relations
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781839987472
July 2022
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£29.95 / $29.95Have you ever thought Brazil was a country afraid of becoming more international? Written by a Brazilian expert in foreign affairs, this book describes Brazilian position in the international scenario and presents an authentic and provocative point of view on the Brazilian international relations
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Genealogies of the West
Civilization, Religion, Consciousness
Jaume Aurell
This book presents a new look at the West by tracing the still-recognizable footprints of the past and reflecting on the present challenges is facing. It recalls the genealogies of the plural processes, ideas, and events that structure the West’s tradition and identity, and their presence nowadays.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781839987571
July 2022
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£29.99 / $29.99This book presents a new look at the West by tracing the still-recognizable footprints of the past and reflecting on the present challenges is facing. It recalls the genealogies of the plural processes, ideas, and events that structure the West’s tradition and identity, and their presence nowadays.
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Soccer and Racism
The Beginnings of Futebol in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, 1895-1933
Rosana Barbosa
This book aims to use soccer as a tool to understand key elements of Brazil’s history from the overthrow of the Monarchy in 1889 to the 1930 Revolution that brought Getulio Vargas to power – the so-called First Republic.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839984754
July 2022
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£80.00 / $80.00This book aims to use soccer as a tool to understand key elements of Brazil’s history from the overthrow of the Monarchy in 1889 to the 1930 Revolution that brought Getulio Vargas to power – the so-called First Republic.
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Horwitz Publications, Pulp Fiction and the Rise of the Australian Paperback
Andrew Nette
This book explores the history of Horwitz Publications, one of Australia’s largest post-war pulp publishers. Although best known for its cheaply produced, sometimes luridly packaged softcover books, Horwitz Publications played a far larger role in mainstream Australian publishing than has been recognised, particularly in the expansion of the paperback that took place from the late 1950s onwards.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839982453
July 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00This book explores the history of Horwitz Publications, one of Australia’s largest post-war pulp publishers. Although best known for its cheaply produced, sometimes luridly packaged softcover books, Horwitz Publications played a far larger role in mainstream Australian publishing than has been recognised, particularly in the expansion of the paperback that took place from the late 1950s onwards.
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Amazonian Indigenous Cultures in Art and Anthropological Exhibitions
Cinthya Lana
The book discusses the representation of Amazonian indigenous cultures in exhibitions from a postcolonial perspective through the analysis of several temporary exhibitions taking place in both art and anthropological institutions from the 1980s onwards.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839981593
July 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00The book discusses the representation of Amazonian indigenous cultures in exhibitions from a postcolonial perspective through the analysis of several temporary exhibitions taking place in both art and anthropological institutions from the 1980s onwards.
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Trailblazing Women of Australian Public Broadcasting, 1945–1975
Kylie Andrews
Trailblazing women of Australian Public Broadcasting, 1945-1975 presents a compelling feminist perspective of Australian radio and television history. It resuscitates the careers of a group of female producers who strategically defied the odds and used broadcasting as a site for their activism in the decades after World War II.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839982576
July 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00Trailblazing women of Australian Public Broadcasting, 1945-1975 presents a compelling feminist perspective of Australian radio and television history. It resuscitates the careers of a group of female producers who strategically defied the odds and used broadcasting as a site for their activism in the decades after World War II.
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Transpacific Connections: Literary and Cultural Production by and about Latin American Nikkeijin
Edited by Maja Zawierzeniec
Transpacific Connections: Literary and Cultural Production by and about Latin American Nikkeijin is a cross-cultural work combining Latin American and Japanese studies. It contains original research on social and cultural relations between Japan and Latin America, ranging from Japanese inspirations in one of the most renowned Mexican poets, Brazilian dekasegi (temporary workers in Japan) described in a variety of testimonials, Japanese community in Brazil and its literary production, and a Mexican telenovela, inspired by the Japanese culture to European inspirations in a Nikkei Peruvian writer, Augusto Higa Oshiro.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839984044
June 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00Transpacific Connections: Literary and Cultural Production by and about Latin American Nikkeijin is a cross-cultural work combining Latin American and Japanese studies. It contains original research on social and cultural relations between Japan and Latin America, ranging from Japanese inspirations in one of the most renowned Mexican poets, Brazilian dekasegi (temporary workers in Japan) described in a variety of testimonials, Japanese community in Brazil and its literary production, and a Mexican telenovela, inspired by the Japanese culture to European inspirations in a Nikkei Peruvian writer, Augusto Higa Oshiro.
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Poetics of Race in Latin America
Edited by Mabel Moraña
Poetics of Race offers innovative approaches to the study of aesthetic and cultural representation of race and ethnicity in Latin America, particularly in Mexico, Brazil, the Caribbean and the Andean region. Interdisciplinary studies elaborate on issues of marginalization, immigration, violence, gender, exclusion, resistance and emancipation.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839984761
June 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00Poetics of Race offers innovative approaches to the study of aesthetic and cultural representation of race and ethnicity in Latin America, particularly in Mexico, Brazil, the Caribbean and the Andean region. Interdisciplinary studies elaborate on issues of marginalization, immigration, violence, gender, exclusion, resistance and emancipation.
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Fronsperger and Laffemas
16th-century Precursors of Modern Economic Ideas
Edited by Erik S. Reinert, Philipp Robinson Rössner
Leonhard Fronsperger, Barthélemy de LaffemasThis volume introduces two very early, unique, and hitherto largely unknown contributions to the making of modern economic knowledge: Fronsperger's on the role of self-interest in economic development (later called the ‘Mandeville Paradox’) and Laffemas’ on the importance of an active industrial policy. Both for the first time in English.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839987083
June 2022
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£110.00 / $110.00This volume introduces two very early, unique, and hitherto largely unknown contributions to the making of modern economic knowledge: Fronsperger’s on the role of self-interest in economic development (later called the ‘Mandeville Paradox’) and Laffemas’ on the importance of an active industrial policy. Both for the first time in English.
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Chindian Myth of Mulian Rescuing His Mother – On Indic Origins of the Yulanpen Sūtra
Debate and Discussion
Xiaohuan Zhao
The scriptural source for the Ghost Festival in East Asia is the Yulanpen Sūtra, which, however, is overwhelmingly considered apocryphal in modern scholarship. This book challenges this widely held belief by demonstrating that the sūtra is a Chinese creative translation rather than an indigenous Chinese composition.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781839986963
May 2022
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£24.95 / $24.95The scriptural source for the Ghost Festival in East Asia is the Yulanpen Sūtra, which, however, is overwhelmingly considered apocryphal in modern scholarship. This book challenges this widely held belief by demonstrating that the sūtra is a Chinese creative translation rather than an indigenous Chinese composition.
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Performing Memories and Weaving Archives:
Creolized Cultures across the Indian Ocean
Sayan Dey
This book engages with how the South African Indians in South Africa and Siddis in Gujarat perform creolized musical, spiritual, and culinary practices in their respective geopolitical spaces in the contemporary era.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781839986901
May 2022
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£24.95 / $24.95This book engages with how the South African Indians in South Africa and Siddis in Gujarat perform creolized musical, spiritual, and culinary practices in their respective geopolitical spaces in the contemporary era.
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Gothic Appalachian Literature
Sarah Robertson
Gothic Appalachian Literature examines the ways contemporary Appalachian authors utilize gothic tropes to explore the complex history and contemporary problems of the region, particularly in terms of their representation of economic and environmental concerns.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781839986789
May 2022
Forthcoming
£24.95 / $24.95Gothic Appalachian Literature examines the ways contemporary Appalachian authors utilize gothic tropes to explore the complex history and contemporary problems of the region, particularly in terms of their representation of economic and environmental concerns.
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The New Motivation and Dilemma of China’s Soft Power in the Age of Noopolitik
Zheng Li
The monograph investigates whether China is mindful of exporting its political ideas and whether it considers its governance model to be the pillar of its soft power portfolio. Through framing analysis of media coverage and in-depth interviews with Australian public diplomacy experts, the monograph presents how Australia, a western country with close economic ties with China, interprets China's intended narrative regarding its governance model and development.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785279577
May 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00The monograph investigates whether China is mindful of exporting its political ideas and whether it considers its governance model to be the pillar of its soft power portfolio. Through framing analysis of media coverage and in-depth interviews with Australian public diplomacy experts, the monograph presents how Australia, a western country with close economic ties with China, interprets China’s intended narrative regarding its governance model and development.
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Tasos Leivaditis’ Triptych
Battle at the Edge of the Night, This Star Is for All of Us, The Wind at the Crossroads of the World
Edited and translated by N.N. Trakakis
Tasos Leivaditis made his stunning literary debut in 1952-53 with three poetry books, counteracting the violence and oppression of his times with the values of eros and solidarity, freedom and justice.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781785278822
May 2022
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£24.99 / $24.99Tasos Leivaditis made his stunning literary debut in 1952-53 with three poetry books, counteracting the violence and oppression of his times with the values of eros and solidarity, freedom and justice.
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Early Buddhism as Philosophy of Existence
Freedom and Death
Susan E. Babbitt
This book makes the connection between early Buddhism and nature. Early Buddhism was a system of thinking which applied the universal laws of nature to human beings. It was a comprehensive worldview. But after the first 400 to 500 years, it was mostly lost.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839983344
May 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00This book makes the connection between early Buddhism and nature. Early Buddhism was a system of thinking which applied the universal laws of nature to human beings. It was a comprehensive worldview. But after the first 400 to 500 years, it was mostly lost.
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Individuals and Small Groups in Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust
A Case Study of a Young Couple and their Friends
Ben Braber
This book aims to increase our knowledge and deepen the understanding of Jewish resistance to the Holocaust by examining personal circumstances and characteristics of Jewish resistance members and the formation of small Jewish resistance groups.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839983580
April 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00This book aims to increase our knowledge and deepen the understanding of Jewish resistance to the Holocaust by examining personal circumstances and characteristics of Jewish resistance members and the formation of small Jewish resistance groups.
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The Ethics of Personal Data Collection in International Relations
Inclusionism in the Time of COVID-19
Edited by Colette Mazzucelli, James Felton Keith, C. Ann Hollifield
foreword by Azza Karam
afterword by Joshua CooperThis volume attests to the fact that pressing global public health concerns are ever present as subjects of societal discourse and debate in developed and developing states. Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic makes the omission of the ethics of personal data collection analysis in the international relations literature even more salient given the rise of contact tracing and increased uses of mobile phone Apps to track citizens by states and firms across the globe, as this volume’s chapters analyzing the responses to COVID-19 in Iran and Taiwan explain.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839981036
April 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00This volume attests to the fact that pressing global public health concerns are ever present as subjects of societal discourse and debate in developed and developing states. Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic makes the omission of the ethics of personal data collection analysis in the international relations literature even more salient given the rise of contact tracing and increased uses of mobile phone Apps to track citizens by states and firms across the globe, as this volume’s chapters analyzing the responses to COVID-19 in Iran and Taiwan explain.
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Civil Society in India
Nandini Deo
This book explores how the partnerships between big businesses and civil society organizations are influencing the development and rights landscape in India. Can these collaborations lead to win-win solutions for marginalized groups or will they destroy civil society’s resistance to market forces?
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839985966
March 2022
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This book explores how the partnerships between big businesses and civil society organizations are influencing the development and rights landscape in India. Can these collaborations lead to win-win solutions for marginalized groups or will they destroy civil society’s resistance to market forces?
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Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani Urdu Writing
Amina Yaqin
This book sets out an unconventional literary history of progressive Urdu poetry by Pakistani women in the twentieth century. It introduces the resilient voices of poets who tread a fine line between the secular and sacred in an Islamic society to articulate a new feminist aesthetic.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785277559
March 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00This book sets out an unconventional literary history of progressive Urdu poetry by Pakistani women in the twentieth century. It introduces the resilient voices of poets who tread a fine line between the secular and sacred in an Islamic society to articulate a new feminist aesthetic.
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Victorian Ladies in the Ottoman Empire
Lifting the Veil
Elisabetta Marino
Focusing on prominent accounts by 10 distinguished women writers, who travelled to the Ottoman Empire (in particular, to modern-day Turkey, Egypt, and Cyprus) during the reign of Queen Victoria, this volume analyzes the multi-faceted, often ambivalent and conflicting ways their encounters with Otherness articulated itself to the masses.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839985829
March 2022
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Focusing on prominent accounts by 10 distinguished women writers, who travelled to the Ottoman Empire (in particular, to modern-day Turkey, Egypt, and Cyprus) during the reign of Queen Victoria, this volume analyzes the multi-faceted, often ambivalent and conflicting ways their encounters with Otherness articulated itself to the masses.
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Sounding Prose
Music in the 17th-Century Dutch Novel
Natascha Veldhorst
This book is about the presence of music in novels. More specifically, about music in the early modern novel, with an emphasis on seventeenth-century prose from The Netherlands. The essay provides a concise and an accessible introduction into the subject and presents an overview of this compelling new research area.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781839983009
March 2022
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£24.95 / $24.95This book is about the presence of music in novels. More specifically, about music in the early modern novel, with an emphasis on seventeenth-century prose from The Netherlands. The essay provides a concise and an accessible introduction into the subject and presents an overview of this compelling new research area.
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Latin American Foreign Policies in the New World Order
The Active Non-Alignment Option
Edited by Carlos Fortin, Jorge Heine, Carlos Ominami
At a time of growing US-China tensions, and of Latin America’s deepest crisis in a century, Active Non-Alignment option embodies a novel way out of this predicament.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839985720
March 2022
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£110.00 / $110.00At a time of growing US-China tensions, and of Latin America’s deepest crisis in a century, Active Non-Alignment option embodies a novel way out of this predicament.
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The Colonial and National Formations of the National College of Arts, Lahore, circa 1870s to 1960s
Nadeem Omar Tarar
Using archival sources, The Colonial and National Formations of the National College of Arts, Lahore, c1870–1960 explores the colonial and postcolonial history of arts education in Pakistan by focusing on the history of the National College of Arts since the nineteenth century.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785277924
February 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00Using archival sources, The Colonial and National Formations of the National College of Arts, Lahore, c1870–1960 explores the colonial and postcolonial history of arts education in Pakistan by focusing on the history of the National College of Arts since the nineteenth century.